Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The ocean steamer Anchoria arrived safely at St. Johns, N. F., having been overdue twelve days. Her machinery had broken down when three days out from Liverpool, and the remainder of the route was made under sail. The passengers were well Two births and two deaths occurred during the voyage; and for some time, owing to lack of provisions, the passengers and crew had been put upon an allowance of two meals a day. An armed crew from the Canadian cruiser Terror boarded the American schooner Marion Grimes, held at Shelburne, N. 8. for violation of tho custom laws, and compelled the Captain to haul down the American flag, which was waving from the masthead. Congressional nominations: Fifth Massachusetts District, E. D. Hayden, Republican; Seventh Massachusetts, James. H. French, Democrat; Seventh Massachusetts, Rev. W. Spaulding, Fusion; Seventh New Jersey, Edwin J. Kerr, Democrat—a bolt from the renomination of Congressman McAdoo. Three trustworthy gentlemen, who occupied a sailboat, report that when half way between Westport and Southport, Ct, they saw a huge sea serpent, 75 to 100 feet of the body of which was exposed, while the monster carried its bead live feet out of the water. Daniel Crusty and Louis Jester engaged in a prize lignt at Itoelcaway Beach, Long Island. Crusty won, knocking his antagonist through a window. At thirteen different points along the Hudson River, between Cate kill and Marlborough, ripe strawberries were gathered last week in the open field. The eighteen window-glass factories in New Yom State and other laetories in the northern district will resume operations at onco, the wages question having been settled. In the United States Circuit Court at Detroit, in the ca3j of a citizen charged with bringing ship-carpenters across the river from Canada, Julge Brown sustained the constitutionality of the law prohibiting the importation of labor. While officiating at the altar in a Polish Catholic Church at Pittsburgh au attempt was made to assassinate the Rev. Father Mislcewitz, au unknown person firing at him through a window. The buliot passed within six inches of tho priest’s body, and tho affair caused intense excitement among tho congregation. D. L. Yulee, a Senator from Florida for three terms, withdrawing at the outbreak of the rebellion, died in a hotel at New York.